Nutritional component
Content (% / mg/g)
Moisture
61.74-79.30%
Crude protein
13.61-24.97%
Carbohydrate
3.99-17.44%
Ash
0.09-0.23%
Ca
1.05-4.33%
P
0.16-0.62%
S
0.12-0.32%
Mg
0.11-0.45%
Fe
135.29-314.66 mg /g
Mn
18.65-124.75 mg /g
Zn
17.95-45.86 mg /g
Cu
6.85-25.81 mg /g
Table 1: The nutritional composition of mulberry (Morus alba) leaves (air-dry basis) [19]
Item
Content (mg/g)
Ile
10.0
Leu
27.0
Lys
25.1
Met
9.8
Phe
22.3
Thr
16.6
Val
13.1
Asp
43.8
Ser
19.0
Gly
23.0
Ala
26.1
Glu
48.9
Cys
3.4
Tyr
15.4
His
9.2
Arg
25.9
Pro
18.8
Table 2: Amino acid contents of mulberry (Morus alba) leaves (dry matter basis) (Wang et al., 2015)
Content (%)
27.6
Crude fat
8.65
Crude fiber
7.12
Total starch
5.65
Total sugar
15.12
Total flavonoids
1.09
Linolenic acid
56.87
Palmitic acid
23.28
Linoleic acid
6.11
Oleic acid
5.12
Arachidonate
0.21
Table 3: Nutritional composition of Moringa oleifera leaves (dry matter basis) (Liu and Guo-Hua, 2004; Sánchez-Machado et al., 2010) [31,32]
3.05
2.00
1.47
1.34
1.23
1.07
1.06
1.04
0.95
0.90
0.82
0.54
0.45
0.36
0.34
Table 4: Amino acid contents of Moringa oleifera leaves (dry matter basis) (Rao, 2007) [33]
Content (mg/kg)
VE
1130.0
Pantothenic acid
891.0
β-carotene
603.0
VC
368.0
VB2
K
15505
16920
5651
3243
164.8
Al
133.
77.6
62.5
47.6
Se
0.6
Table 5: Vitamin and mineral contents of Moringa oleifera leaves (dry matter basis) (Ding, 2014) [34]
Content (% / mg/kg)
B. papyrifera leaves
Alfalfa
Soybean meal
9.1%
13.0%
11.0%
26.1%
19.1%
44.2%
5.2%
2.3%
1.9%
NDF
15.9%
36.7%
13.6%
ADF
25.0%
9.6%
15.4%
7.6%
6.1%
3.4%
1.4%
0.3%
Total P
0.2%
0.5%
0.6%
8.3 mg/kg
9.7 mg/kg
23.5 mg/kg
247.1 mg/kg
3.6 mg/kg
181.0 mg/kg
50.3 mg/kg
30.7 mg/kg
27.4 mg/kg
62.9 mg/kg
16.0 mg/kg
45.4 mg/kg
62.3 mg/kg
3600.0 mg/kg
2700.0 mg/kg
Table 6: Nutritional composition of Broussonetia papyrifera leaves, alfalfa and soybean meal (air-dry basis) (Tu et al., 2009)
Content (g /100g)
Leaves
Aggregate fruit
Male inflorescence
Fruit
2.55
2.84
2.08
1.50
0.39
0.29
0.80
0.38
0.46
0.40
3.13
1.37
3.41
2.18
1.55
0.73
0.98
1.05
1.65
0.51
0.43
1.63
0.57
1.08
0.68
0.41
0.06
0.15
0.09
1.42
0.47
0.72
2.50
0.70
0.91
0.87
0.33
1.43
0.50
0.58
1.49
1.14
0.76
1.30
2.65
1.74
1.57
0.65
0.31
0.30
0.08
0.04
0.07
Table 7: Total amino acid content and composition of different parts of the Broussonetia papyrifera plant (dry matter basis) (Zhou, 2005)